coondoggie writes: "NASA's Inspector General said this week it doubts the space agency can hit its own mandatory deadline to encrypt all laptops by December 21. The IG's office has written scathing reports on NASA's the encryption efforts in the past year and the latest item was no exception:

"In our judgment, it is extremely unlikely that the Agency will meet its December goal primarily because the Agency does not have a full account of the number of...laptops in its possession."